Bug#69090: strange su / which / apt behaviour

[Jens Taprogge <taprogge@idg.rwth-aachen.de>]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 05:04:49AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:18:32AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > $ su
> > > # which ldconfig
> > > # echo $PATH
> > > /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/local/linux/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> > 
> > You are looking for "su -".
> 
> No, he is not, see the PATH above, it contains /sbin... i guess it is not
> exported.
> 
> Greetings
> Bernd

Using "su -" fixes my problem.

On the other hand on most machines I do not need to use "-".

I do export the $PATH. I also source .bashrc in .bash_profile. And: for example
"strace ldconfig" works when su'ed without "-". So does "sudo which adduser".
I can also execute the commands in the ...sbin... paths.

Best Regards
Jens

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Jens Taprogge